Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, First Pattern Archive (3) Wound Badge in Black

(3)    Wound Badge in Black with citation dated 8 October 1941

measuring 52 mm (w) x 62 mm (h) (without backer)

a General German Automobile Association (DDAC) membership pin

Hessian Landtag (state parliament) and chairman of the FDP Landtag faction

although very few recipients took up the offer

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, First Pattern Archive (3) Wound Badge in Black(Verwundetenabzeichen). Constructed of brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 40 mm (w) x 42. 43 mm (h), weighing 7. 2 grams, the grade of the badge is